Coat-pad.



No. 777,625. PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904. G. GOLDMAN.

COAT PAD.

APPLIUATIOH FILED DB0. so, 1902. nsnwn Nov. 1a, 1904..

N0 MODEL.

no. 'Nacen NrTnn STATES Patented December 13, 1904.

G-USTAV GOLDMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

COAT-PAD..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,625, dated December 13, 1904.

Application led December 30, 1902. Renewed liovember 18, 1904. Serial No. 233,367. die model.)

To all whom, 7115 Haag] concern,.-

Be it known thatl, GUsTAv GOLDMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Goat- Pads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined shoulder and breast pad and sleeve-filler to be used in the manufacture of garments, and has for its object to produce as a new article of manufacture acombined breast and shoulder pad and sleeve-filler which will be made in one piece and which will be of uniform homogeneous character and of uniform elasticity, having smooth surfaces and desired variations of thickness.

In the construction of garments in large numbers to be sold ready-made it is necessary that the garments shall be made of standard shape and size and that the variations of size and shape should be definitely known and exact, so that the garments may be sold by definite quotations of size and shape. When a tailor builds a coat to lit a customer, having1 the customer before him, he can cut and [it and pad to make the coat fit properly the irregularities of the models figure; but when a tailor is manufacturing a large number' of coats to lit certain standard models it is necessary that the coat should be padded to a much greater extent in order that it may be made to fit the average man. To accomplish this result, uniformity in padding and uniformity and accuracy of location of the padding in the garment shall be accomplished.

` This result I obtain by the use of my invention.

Heretofore it has been customary in padding a coat to sew into it an independent shoulder-pad and an independent sleeve-filler and an independent breast-pad, or sometimes a combined shoulder-pad and sleeve-filler have been made to be used together. The independence of these pads and the necessity for locating them accurately in the coat-a necessity which falls upon the tailor who makes the garment-requires of the tailor ahigh degree of skill and care, and in the absence of such skill and care results in the misplacement of the pads and the construction of inferior coats, besides which everything that involves skill and care in the adjustment consumes the time of the operative in the construction, as well as requiring a high degree of skill in order to obtain effective results. l eliminate in great measure tl i skill required for the accurate adjustment and insertion of my pads, and consequently .reduce the number of bad coats, as well as the cost of construction, by making the breast-pad, shoulder-pad, and sleeve-filler in one piece ,in a proper relation to one another and then indicating upon the shoulderpad the point at which it is to be inserted in the coat in relation to the guiding-key of the construction, which is the shoulderseam. The shoulder-pad once accurately located in relation to the shoulder-seam, the other portions of the pad. the sleeve-filler, and the breastpad will necessarily fall into their proper places to produce the result desired.

I have invented a process of manufacturing a wadding of a peculiar character, and the product of this process is used in the manufacture of the pad which is the subject of this application. The product consists of a wadding composed of a textile fabric to which is connected by a gmnmy substance a series of films of iieccy material which are homogeneous in character, the surface of the Lippermost film being coated with a gummy substance. rIhis fabric may be aptly described as composed of a homogeneous body of Heeey material. rlhe layers or Iilms of iieecy material of which it is composed are susceptible of separation in planes parallel to the surface of the fabric, and when so separated suitable masses of reinforcing material, preferably homogeneous masses of fieecy material, may be interposed between the lihns of homogeneous fleecy material to produce desired variations of thickness in the finished product, which when linished will constitute the subject-matter of this applicationthat is to say, a combined breast and shoulder pad and sleeve-liller composed of a homogeneous mass of ileecy material having a body portion of uniform thickness composed of layers of a shape of the outline of the combined pads and having reinforcing portions, also of homogeneous lieecy material of suitable shape, interposed between the layers of the body portion to produce desired variations of thickness.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the combined breast-pad, shoulderpad, and sleeve-filler. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the combined pad. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one form of reinforcing portion interposed between the layers of the fabric. Fig. 4 is a plan view of alternate form of reinforcing portion.

Referring to Fig. 1, 1 is the outline of the fabric of which the pad is constructed, which is of the shape of the combined outline of the breast-pad, shoulder-pad, and sleeve-filler.

In Fig. 1 the reference-numeral 12 designates the portion which forms the breastplatepad, 13 the portions which form the shoul-4 der-pad, and 14 the portion which forms the sleeve-filler. When a pad of the shape shown in Fig. 1 is inserted in a coat, the portion 12 will come down in the front of the coat to form the breast-pad, while the portion 13 will be on the shoulder, with the portion 14 passing beyond the shoulder-seam and into the sleeve, forming what I term the sleevefiller.7

Referring to Fig. 3, which represents aconical-shaped reinforcing portion designed to be interposed between the layers of the body,

portion, the center portion 2 is of approximately uniform thickness and of a desired height, and the portion 3 surrounding it tapers off to a desired minimum all around the portion 2. When the reinforcing portion shown in Fig. 3 is inserted between the layers of the body portion in the shoulder-pad and sleeve-filler portions of the pads, it will occupy the position indicated by the dotted line 4, and its highest portion, which is elliptical, will be indicated by the dotted line 5. Ve will then have a breast-pad of uniform thickness, a shoulder-pad of approximately crescent shape, having its highest portion immediately over the shoulder and thinning ofiI to its minimum thickness toward the collar of the coat, and sleeve-filler, which is the reverse of the shoulder-pad. Both the surfaces of this combined pad will be smooth and unbroken, and if lines of stitching are introduced the whole will be held together securely.

Referring to Fig. 4, which represents a combined reinforcing portion consisting of an elementary portion like that shown in Fig. 3, (indicated by 6,) having a downward eX- tension, (marked.7,) the downward extension is made of desired thickness of homogeneous material with the outer portion 6, and the whole is interposed between the layers of the body portion 1 so as to occupy the position shown by the dotted lines 9 9 9. The dotted lines 10 10 show another modification of shape, and the dotted lines 11 11 show still another modification of shape for the reinforcing portion. (Shown in Fig. 4.)

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, acombined breast and shoulder pad and sleeve-filler, having a body portion composed of layers of the shape of the combined pad and sleevefiller, and having reinforcing' portions interposed between the layers of the body portion at suitable places to produce desired variations of thickness.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a combined breast and shoulder pad and sleeve-filler, having a body portion composed of layers of homogeneous fleecy material of the shape of the outline of the combined pad and sleevefiller, and having reinforcing portions interposed between the layers of the body portion at suitable places to produce desired variations of thickness.

3. As anew article of manufacture, a combined breast and shoulder pad and sleeve-filler, having a body portion composed of layers of the shape of the outline of the combined pad and sleeve-filler, and having a substantially conical reinforcing portion interposed between the layers of the body portion to give to the shoulder-pad and sleeve-filler a desired shape and thickness.

Signed by me at Baltimore Maryland, this 9th day of December, 1902.

GUSTAV GOLDMAN.

fitnessesz CHARLES H. MILLIKIN, GEO. WM. SNYDEP., Jr. 

